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T&G: Philip Engel (Georgia),  Integral-affine spheres and K3 moduli | Einstein Institute of Mathematics

T&G: Philip Engel (Georgia),  Integral-affine spheres and K3 moduli

Date: 
Tue, 17/01/202318:00-19:00
Location: 
Zoom
In this talk, I will explain how to compactify moduli spaces of polarized K3 surfaces, and describe the singular objects (KSBA stable pairs) at the boundary. For the Deligne-Mumford compactification of the moduli space of genus g curves, the boundary strata are encoded by certain "cartoons": genus g stable graphs. For K3 surface pairs, the boundary strata are rather "polarized" integral-affine structures on the two-sphere, and their combinatorial types are governed by an object called a semifan. This is joint work with Valery Alexeev.